ASMedia seems to have horrible problems with version numbers... Anyway the 0.951 firmware does appear to be the newest that's available, but maybe there's a newer one in a current UEFI motherboard BIOS. I tried extracting a few but didn't succeed.

EDIT by Fernando: The ASMedia AHCI DRIVERS related part of the post has been moved into >this< freshly created thread.

Zitat von mushbert im Beitrag #18ASMedia seems to have horrible problems with version numbers... Anyway the 0.951 firmware does appear to be the newest that's available, but maybe there's a newer one in a current UEFI motherboard BIOS.

The ASMedia 106x AHCI ROM v0.951 is dated 07/11/2012. AFAIK the newest working ASMedia AHCI ROM is v0.954, which can be found within the start post of >this< thread.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #19The ASMedia 106x AHCI ROM v0.951 is dated 07/11/2012. AFAIK the newest working ASMedia AHCI ROM is v0.954, which can be found within the start post of >this< thread.

Thanks! I have this version installed now; it does work, but strangely - attached drives are no longer scanned during boot-up and there is no OROM information screen displayed (though I enjoy this as booting is faster). However, once Windows starts loading it works as expected, with no issues so far. I'm using Win7, a P45/ICH10R board, and a SiI3726 port multiplier connected to the ASMedia PCIe card... Maybe 0954 is built for BIOS insertion and that's why it doesn't act as expected?

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #19This is a very interesting report, which should be moved [...] If you agree, I will do it for you.

Absolutely - the information is more useful if people can easily find it. Feel free to copy anything of relevance over.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #19The ASMedia 106x AHCI ROM v0.951 is dated 07/11/2012. AFAIK the newest working ASMedia AHCI ROM is v0.954, which can be found within the start post of >this< thread.

Thanks! I have this version installed now; it does work, but strangely - attached drives are no longer scanned during boot-up and there is no OROM information screen displayed (though I enjoy this as booting is faster).

There should be an option within the BIOS to force the splash of the ASMedia 106x Utility v0.954 while booting.

Zitat von Fernando im Beitrag #21There should be an option within the BIOS to force the splash of the ASMedia 106x Utility v0.954 while booting.

Only if you insert it by force like you did using MMTool, I tried it too and (of course "with show OROM while BOOT" or something similar), and now during BOOT right before Intel RAID ROM screen it shows:

With 0954 installed on the card, no splash screen for it is shown but the others appear as normal. Again, while this is strange, for me it is a positive point because if the card is working properly there is no need to slow down the boot process with yet another splash screen.

Edit: Oh yes, one other thing: with the 0951 ROM, the driver (v1.4.0.1) shows the "Enable Safely Remove Disk" switch on the Policy tab in Device Manager, but not the "Enable Driver Cache Mode" switch. With 0954 the latter option re-appears. I have no idea whether that means caching does/does not work with 0951.

Zitat von mushbert im Beitrag #23With 0954 installed on the card, no splash screen for it is shown but the others appear as normal. Again, while this is strange, for me it is a positive point because if the card is working properly there is no need to slow down the boot process with yet another splash screen.

Zitat von tg im Beitrag #25I have a standalone 2 port SATA card using ASmedia Chipset 1061.tried flashing the firmware provided on this site and then the 3.0.2 from station drivers.Seems to fail erasing SPI rom.Entire SPI ROM neeed to be re-programmed!!!

Because of the wellknown problems I neither have offered this v3.02 OROM nor recommended to insert it into the BIOS.

That's abit of a problem as I don't have the original BIOS.It was running V0.90 Bios, and had an anoying bug on reboot the bios wouldn't load and pc wouldn't boot.I would have to do a complete power off and then the BIOS would init.

I am using on my P8Z77-V Deluxe the ASM 106x SATA controller the driver V 2.0.4.0 (w7 x64 in AHCI Mode), dated 25/11/2013.Seems to work fine.

However i would like to know what FIRMWARE is flashed inside this controller on the motherboard , and what OROM version is flashed inside the ASUS BIOS version 2104.I assume a couple of these 2 pieces of flashed software must be respected to work fine together.So,1) How can we get the both OROM and FIRMWARE versions respective value ?2) I have tried the "AHCI.bat" command under a USB DOS bootable key and get a) for 'ahci302.rom' this menu:106spi -u ahci302.romDOS/4GW .. version 1.97ASM106x SPI Flash ROM Write V 2.06Find 1 ASM106x controllerRead-ROM ID Failed !!Program Stop!!b)for N0951 piece this menu:..ASM106x SPI Flash ROM Write V 2.5Find 1 ASM106x controllerCan't find SPI ROM !!!

I haven't yet done a look into the BIOS of your mainboard, but the original BIOS of my ASUS P8Z77-V doesn't contain any ASM 106x OROM module. Nevertheless I was able to insert the ASM106x OROM v0.954 without any problem.AFAIK the ASMedia AHCI Controllers are managed just by the OROM and not by any special Firmware (like the Intel RAID Controllers), but I am not 100% sure about that.